Arrangement for supplying packaging machines with packaging material
AssigneeFocke & Co. (GmbH & Co.)
InventorsHeinz Focke, Irmin Steinkamp, Frank Hill, Holger Pfeiffer
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Abstract
For supplying production and packaging machines, in particular for supplying lines (10, 11) for producing and packaging cigarettes, an intermediate store (12) is provided for storing packaging material, to be precise for pallets (20) with reels (18) of web-like material. Pallets (20) with the packaging material are fed to the intermediate store (12) by a pallet conveyor (28). A separate reel conveyor (48) transports reels (18), as required, to the individual machines and subassemblies of the lines (10, 11).
Claims16
Arrangement for supplying production and packaging machines with expendable material or packaging material, in particular material webs which are wound as reels (18), supplied on pallets (20) and distributed (individually) to the production and packaging machines, characterized by the following features:
- a) a machine or a unit containing a plurality of machines, in particular comprising two lines (10, 11) for producing and packaging cigarettes, is assigned an adjacent intermediate store (12) for packaging material or reels (18),
- b) located in the intermediate store (12) is at least one pallet (20) for (each type of) (web-like) material processed in the machine or machines,
- c) pallets (20) with in each case one type of reel (18) can be fed to the intermediate store (12) by a pallet conveyor (28),
- d) individual reels (18) can be transported, by a separate reel conveyor (48), from the intermediate store (12) to one of the machines which is to be supplied.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.